Number of sitting days

4

57

Average length of a sitting day

11 hrs 44 mins

10 hrs 22 mins

Longest sitting day

13 hrs 39 mins
(29 November)

17 hrs 23 mins
(28 June)

Shortest sitting day

10 hrs 17 mins
(28 November)

5 hrs
(8 May)

Hours of sitting

46 hrs 55 mins

591 hrs 12 mins

Business conducted in the Senate

• government business
• general business
       including time spent on private senators' bills
• questions without notice
• urgency/MPI
• business of the Senate
• other
• adjournment debate

24 hrs 15 mins
10 hrs 16 mins
3 hrs 17 mins
4 hrs 09 mins
1 hr 01 min
1 hr 53 mins
1 hr 02 mins
4 hrs 19 mins

Questions placed on notice

77^

1164*

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

111

4 sitting days

1492

53 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

27.8

28.2

Petitions presented

3

40

Signatories to petitions

5 875

85 475

Divisions

35

342

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

2
5

4
27

Received from the House of Representatives

• government bills
• private members' bills

10
0

200
1

Passed in the Senate

27

207

Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper

1

9

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

10

55

Bills referred to committees

13

100